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Georgetown’s Lady Eagles celebrated “Family Night” on Saturday afternoon with two victories in three games with their counterparts from Liberty Hill at Eagle Gym. State-ranked GHS won the varsity engagement, 51-30, and took the JV contest, 49-43, after the Freshman Blue dropped 47-42 overtime decision.The triple-header was […]

If there is a Louvre-like structure to recognize outstanding achievement in high school basketball, Tuesday night’s District 18-5A girls game between Georgetown and Elgin won’t be on the short-list for enshrinement this season. Coach Rhonda Farney gave a succinct review of the Lady Eagles’ 51-31 victory over […]

A high school basketball fan wandering into Eagle Gym this past Friday night with no allegiance to either the Georgetown Lady Eagles or the Austin Westlake Chaps probably would have exited the premises feeling that they had witnessed a highly entertaining piece of athletic drama. Of course, […]

      If athletic events can have drastic mood swings, Tuesday night’s District 18-5A opener between Georgetown and Bastrop at Eagle Gym probably would qualify for some couch time with whatever kind of counselor or analyst handles such occasions.Early, especially in the first period, the game […]

    Georgetown coach Rhonda Farney has a proven plan to prepare her Lady Eagles for the second and third portions of the season — the district race and the the UIL state playoffs. She wants to play a tough non-district schedule and then see her team […]

      “Saturday we’ll play the best team we’ve faced so far this season,” Georgetown Lady Eagles coach Rhonda Farney said Monday afternoon after her team’s 52-35 victory over struggling Victoria East on the Titans’ court. That victory improved Georgetown’s record to 5-4 as it looks […]

At first thought, it might be a matter of topography — Cedar Ridge, Fossil Ridge and Vista Ridge. But Georgetown’s three losses this season to the Ridge triplets have more to do with barriers to basketball success than physical outcroppings.And the Lady Eagles’ 62-48 loss to Class […]

After a less-than-successful season debut this past Friday against Round Rock Cedar Ridge, the 10th-ranked Georgetown Lady Eagles made a 180-degree turn Monday night in a 60-54 victory over Waco Midway at Eagle Gym. It was Georgetown’s first victory over the Pantherettes since the Lady Eagles’ 52-33 […]

After nine days of official preseason workouts, the Georgetown Lady Eagles face a busy weekend of scrimmages sandwiched around the program’s annual Meet the Eagles Night Chili Supper. The Lady Eagles varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams will scrimmage Round Rock Stony Point and Belton, starting 8:30 […]

TABC All Star: Jaelyn Knight  Georgetown senior forward Jaelyn Knight will play for the Red Team in the Texas Girls Coaches Association 5A-6A All-Star Game at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Lamar High School in Arlington.The game is staged in conjunction with the annual TGCA Clinic, which is […]